Sentence examples for rough parallels from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, pack behavior is systematically studied in the wild, and field biologists say they have seen some rough parallels to the actions of human mobs in their observations of other social species -- among females as well as males.

I have to rap!" — is a rough parallel.

Ms. Miranda also admires Simone as a fearless voice of civil rights, and draws an admittedly rough parallel between that movement and the drive for equal rights for gays.

For a rough parallel, he said, go all the way back to England and the collapse of the South Sea Bubble in 1720, a crash that deterred people "from buying stocks for 100 years," he said.

By telling the story of the actor's career in rough parallel with the footage from "Man on the Moon," Smith has created a narrative of multiple disappearing acts: a story not only of Carrey's disappearance into the character of Andy Kaufman but of Carrey's earlier disappearance into the role of a public, popular performer.

The mixers and steamrollers draw closer every day, rumbling through the tilled and unseeded soil of fallow cotton and onion fields in a rough parallel to the long-abandoned Preston Ridge cattle trail, ladling out the fresh hot asphalt of the Dallas North Tollway, a growth serum for office parks and shopping malls.

Today, the internal frontier is largely invisible — you can see on a map that the boundary ripples along in a rough parallel to Bosnia's border, scything out a partition, but there are no actual controls or customs in place; the verdant hills of the Bosnian terrain appear to rise endlessly before you in one continuous whole.

"Each one of those is a gargantuan job in and of itself," said Elaine Kamarck, who created and managed the massive Clinton-era National Peroughance Review, a rough parallel to the OAI.

In its second year, Germany's dengue surveillance demonstrated a rough parallel in the rate of returning travelers with dengue fever and its incidence in the places they had visited.

First of, Draw two rough, diagonal, parallel lines.

The instrumentation is made of two parallel rough cylindrical rods inserted independently in the convexity and concavity of the curve.